I’m sure by now you all are familiar with the results of the 2011 Academy Awards. And you’re probably quite aware that Inception took home 4 Oscars this past Sunday night. It’s not breaking news, or news even, but we have to talk about it right? So we’ll try to make it interesting by including video clips and opinions. Let us remind you that Inception was nominated for a total of 8 Academy Awards. Quite famously none of those 8 were for Best Director. Here is what the nominations were for: Art Direction, Cinematography, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Original Screenplay, and Best Picture. And here’s the breakdown of the half of those it did win.

First up, Best Achievement in Cinematography. Inception had just lost the first award of the night, Achievement in Art Direction, to Alice in Wonderland. Not the best sign for Inception‘s night it would seem. I personally thought it had a more than fair shot at winning in that category, but I’m often wrong about these things. Cinematographer Wally Pfister had some tough competition, among them the great Roger Deakins who has been nominated a total of 8 previous times without a win. But sure enough the prized golden statue went to 4 time nominee Wally Pfister! You can check out video of his acceptance speech later on in the article.

After loosing to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (don’t get me started about this disgrace) in the Best Original Score category, the two sound categories were up next. Inception managed to snag both awards; making it the second win for sound editor Richard King, who won 2 years ago for The Dark Knight. Both awards were well deserved in my opinion. The last technical award for the night was Best Visual Effects, which this year – for the first time in the history of the award – there were a total of 5 nominees. Despite the increased odds against winning, Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin and the DNeg team took home the Oscar. Here now is a video of all of the acceptance speeches from the Inception winners:

If you were counting, you’ve counted all 4 wins by now. Christopher Nolan lost to David Seidler for The King’s Speech in the Best Original Screenplay category, which also beat out Inception (and nine others!) for the biggest prize of the night, Best Picture. But as Steven Spielberg said before he presented the award, the nine films who did not take home the Best Picture Oscar fall into the same category with Raging Bull, Citizen Cane, and many other classic films. All in all it was a successful night for Christopher Nolan and team. Inception tied with The King’s Speech in the most number of awards won, and that says something if you ask me. We will be recording a podcast discussing the Oscars with guest host Mike Eisenberg of ScreenRant.com this weekend. Stay tuned for the release.